Word: franchisee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Government thus far supervises only the 250 cable TV companies that are classed as common carriers because they use microwave equipment to pick up and transmit programs. Most companies use ordinary towers that require only a local franchise. Organized for as little as $250,000, CATV companies charge installation...
With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the...
franchise in 1959. The fledgling Bills promptly lost their first three home games. That wasn't exactly what the fans had in mind, and when the Bills wound up last in the Eastern Division in 1961, they took to demonstrating their displeasure by pelting the players with beer cans...
ATLANTA--The Milwaukee Braved announced yesterday they are considering transfering their National League baseball franchise to Atlanta.
Superintendent of Schools Calvin Gross denounced it all as a "perfectly preposterous game in which everyone plays to see who can damage education most by saying they are attempting to improve it." But the P.A.T. protest proved that Negro militants no longer hold an exclusive franchise on pressuring school officials...